Ah, good point. No, I am not totally comfortable with my PoV. I found
this good summary of the issue
https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/this-next-day-week/.
The best way to match with common usage would be for 'This' to refer to
days in the current week, and 'Next' to refer to days in the next week.
This would require MLO to also take note of which day a user starts their
week on (Sunday or Monday), or better yet, to separately ask the user when
they want their 'parsing week' to start (eg my work week start on Monday,
but my cultural week starts on Sunday - and this is likely to vary per
religion/culture/language).
Alas, I suspect there where still be exceptions where someone would
complain. Thus, maybe it still is best to use 'next' for the next day in
the sequence, and to document that in the Help text. Then it works one
(most logical) way for everyone.
In closing, I finally looked in the HELP file for how MLO implements this,
and they have chosen their own logical approach, which is consistent, if
also not fully adapted to actual usage:
Friday (nearest Friday in future)
next Friday (next Friday after nearest Friday in future)
This I can live with, and I am sure its easier to program around ;-)
-Grant
On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 1:11:26 PM UTC+2 Dwight wrote:
> Just a question: the issue is simplest when discussing Mondays and gets
> tougher later in the week. On Thursday, your proposal would make "next
> Friday" synonymous with "tomorrow". Are you really comfortable with this?
> -Dwight
>
> On September 30, 2021 04:16:35 Stéph <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I agree completely.
>>
>> On Thursday, 30 September 2021 at 08:22:32 UTC+1 Grant wrote:
>>
>>> Just to see what others think....and maybe change someday in MLO...
>>>
>>> I find that using 'next Monday' does not parse to the coming Monday,
>>> but the one after the coming Monday.
>>>
>>> There is always a debate around the use of 'this' vs 'next' when
>>> referring dates, so there is no one answer.
>>>
>>> My PoV is that MLO should use the strict interpretation, and next should
>>> refer to the 'next in the order of things', eg 'next monday' means the
>>> one that occurs next, after today. All other interpretations are based on
>>> a regional, or cultural 'common use' interpretation of the English
>>> language and are prone to introducing confusion...
>>>
>>> What is your PoV?
>>>
>>> (have fun)
>>>
>>>
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